15 Amendments of Javi LÓPEZ related to 2014/2222(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regard to its resolutions of 14 September 2011and of 16 January 2014 on an EU Homelessness Strategy;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas, the policies of fiscal consolidation and austerity adopted during the economic crisis have not had the desired effect and have led to the EU astray from its EU2020 targets;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas in spite of mild improvements, the unemployment rate remains historically high, with 25 million people out of work; whereas long-term unemployment is worryingly high, and 12 million people have been unemployed for more than a year (up 4 % over the previous year); whereas youth unemployment rates have not decreased significantly (they have only been reduced by 1.9% compared to 2013) reaching the EU average at 21,2%; whereas 75% of the long-term unemployed in the EU are under 35 years old; whereas the labour market situation is particularly critical for young people, regardless of their level of education;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas excessive austerity has led to an alarming decrease in the EU public and private investment which is now close to 20% below its pre-crisis level and is lower than among its main economic partners elsewhere in the world; whereas investment in quality jobs, human capital, research and innovation must be the top priority for both the Commission and the Member States, as investment in these areas are essential not only to ensuring a recovery but also to expanding the EU’s economic potential to grow and to create prosperity;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas EU policies and reforms have significantly constrained national policies with high impact on people´s living standards while democratic accountability has been undermined; whereas the insufficient involvement of national parliaments, the European Parliament and social partners and civil society organizations at the national and EU level in EU decision making has impeded the ownership of reforms by the Member States, the development of inclusive, social and sustainable solutions and has reduced citizens’ confidence in the EU project as shown in past European elections;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls for the EFSI to give priority to those projects which will create new quality jobs; calls also on the Commission to ensure that EFSI funded projects do not promote or sustain projects creating precarious jobs and social dumping;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to prioritise investments in economically weaker regions suffering from high unemployment, and in SMEs in such regions, given their very limited access to financing, to ensure that these efforts have a meaningful impact where they are most needed and to pay attention across the EIB to those projects which will enable quality jobs creation, with a special focus on projects related to youth employment creation, increasing the share of the labour market held by women, reducing long-term unemployment and improving the possibilities of disadvantaged groups to secure jobs;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that while SMEs constitute the backbone of job creation in the EU, they continue to face major difficulties in gaining access to financing, and they are worryingly over-indebted; welcomes the Commission’s new recommendations on SME’s access to finance, involving a new approach to insolvency and business failure; calls on the Commission for further efforts to foster the implementation of the principles set out in their Recommendation of 12.03.2014 to improve debt-restructuring and second chance schemes as a means to this end in the national level across the CSR when it being necessary;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Welcomes ECB's new expanded asset purchase programme to include bonds issued by euro area central governments, agencies and European institutions and recalls the fact that the ECB's dual-target mandate on monetary policy, as recognised in the Treaties, consists not only of safeguarding price stability (Article 2 of the ECB Statute), but also of pursuing the promotion of sustainable economic and social progress and full employment (Article 3 TEU).
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the fact that in the AGS 2015 the Commission calls on the Member States to protect or promote longer-term investments in education, research and innovation; notes, however, that Member States with already-constrained budgets do not have sufficient means to accomplish that goal; calls, therefore, on the Commission to exclude productive investments in education, research and development and the resources provided from ESF to accomplish with the Youth Guarantee from the deficit targets established under EU rules;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Regrets that the austerity measures imposed by the EU aimed at restoring investor confidence have only led for a worsening of the employment and social conditions throughout Europe with higher unemployment, poverty and inequality levels;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Points out that emerging new forms of poverty – such as in-work poverty compounding difficulties such as e.g. paying mortgages, or high utility prices creating energy poverty – have resulted in an increase in the number of evictions, foreclosures and homeless people; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement integrated policies favouring social and affordable housing, effective prevention policies aimed at reducing the number of evictions, and policies tackling energy poverty; calls on the Commission to extend their Recommendation on a new approach to business failure and insolvency (12.03.2014) towards the household over-indebtedness in order to allow "second chance" for individual and families and tackle honest and unforeseen indebtedness induced by economic crisis what has raised poverty and social exclusion in Europe and it has led to civil death of many people.
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Calls on the European Commission and the Member States to take urgent action to address homelessness. This extreme manifestation of poverty and social exclusion violates fundamental rights and has increased in a large majority of MS. The European Commission should propose concrete mechanisms to monitor and support Member States' efforts to confront homelessness, as called for by the European Parliament's Resolution on an EU homelessness strategy;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Stresses that the tax wedge has been much higher for low-wage and second- income earners, and that this remains an issue; notes however, that only a few countries have taken steps to address this problem, not least on account of the limited fiscal margin; calls on the Commission to take note of the IMF’s October 2013 tax report, which points out that there is scope for better and more progressive forms of taxation;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Expresses its deep concern over the limited role that it, the national parliaments as well as civil society have to play in the formulsocial partners and civil society organizations have to play in the formulation, monitoring and implementation of economic and social priorities in the European Semester; stresses that the persistent lack of democratic accountability in the measures and reforms that have been implemented is significantly reducing confidence in the EU project, as witnessed in the last European elections;